NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Egyptian beetle
7 Word before sheet or battle
10 First president to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery
14 Nabokov novel
15 Lobster ___ Newburg
16 Instrument that an orchestra tunes to
17 X-rayed, e.g.
18 Bit of acne
19 Went 90, say
20 Intertwine
21 That, in Tijuana
23 Classic Led Zeppelin song represented by the ascending circled letters and this answer
25 Bruins : U.C.L.A. :: ___ : Princeton
28 Whole bunch
29 ___-Magnon man
32 Transportation hub named for a 1930s-’40s mayor, in brief
33 A Cyclops has one
35 Piece of limbo equipment
37 Get tangled up
39 Catch wind of
41 Director Guillermo del ___
42 German/polish border river
43 Offerings from Pottery Barn and Chipotle
44 Yemen’s capital
45 Opening of some formal letters
46 Territory
47 Peeled, as a pear
48 Soak (up), as gravy
49 “___ but a scratch”
50 Nevada’s largest county
52 One doing an oral exam, in brief
53 Org. with programs that are taking off?
55 Types in
58 Home of the oldest active M.L.B. ballpark
60 Y.M.C.A. course, for short
61 Classic AC/ DC song represented by the falling circled letters and this answer
65 Maya Angelou’s “And Still I ___”
66 Musical ability
68 Part of N.H.L.
70 Offshore
71 Like 2019 and 2021, but not 2020
72 Fumbles and flubs
73 Pupil’s place
74 Platform for Dr. Mario and Final Fantasy
75 Places for toasters
DOWN
1 Next to nothing, as a chance
2 “___ as you are”
3 “So sad”
4 Correct
5 Supped
6 No-goodnik
7 Schick product
8 2001 Will Smith title role
9 Course of action
10 Completely wreck
11 Open and honest
12 Tipped off
13 Many a Tiktok user
22 Fish in the genus Hippocampus
24 Opposite of WNW
26 Think ___ of
27 Deck protectors
29 With 36-Down, intersection … as suggested by the circled letters in the middle of this puzzle?
30 Static, maybe
31 Cloverleaf features
34 2019, 2020 and 2021: Abbr.
36 See 29-Down
38 CPR sites
40 Animal that sounds a lot like you?
41 Letters on some airport uniforms
43 Antioxidant juice brand
47 The “p” of m.p.h.
49 “___ Te Ching”
51 Shouted
54 Porterhouse, e.g.
56 Aptly named shelfmate of Smarties candy
57 Ventriloquist Lewis
58 Flat-headed fastener
59 Gas in glowing signs
62 Teamwork disrupters
63 Tackle box item
64 More, as the saying goes
67 Juice suffix
69 Obama ___